Iran ‘reaches consensus’ on next Supreme Leader
Iran has reached a ‘majority consensus’ on who will succeed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as the country’s next Supreme Leader.
Khamenei’s second son, Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, has widely been expected to be appointed after gaining the support of the powerful Revolutionary Guards.
The Assembly of Experts, which decides the country’s leader, has more or less reached a decision, member Ayatollah Mohammadmehdi Mirbaqer said.
On Saturday, a senior cleric said members would meet ‘within one day’ to decide the leader.
Ayatollah Mohsen Heidari Alekasir, another member of the Assembly of Experts, said a candidate had been picked based on the late Ayatollah’s advice that he should be ‘hated by the enemy’.
‘Even the Great Satan [US] has mentioned his name,’ Heidari Alekasir said of the chosen successor, days after Donald Trump said that Khamenei’s son, Mojtaba, was an ‘unacceptable’
choice for him.
